The Firm provides its clients with a full-service employment-based, family-based, naturalization, consular and litigation immigration practice. Clients include large, medium, and small businesses engaged in the domestic and international transfer of foreign personnel, including executives, managers, and other highly skilled professionals, and those individuals of extraordinary and exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, and athletics, as well as individuals seeking to unite with family members, and those in Deportation/Removal Proceedings before the U.S. Immigration Courts and federal appellate courts.
Employment-Based Immigration Legal Services
The Firm’s Immigration, Nationality & Consular Practice Group offers its clients a full array of employment based immigration legal services including both Immigrant Visas ("greencards") and Nonimmigrant (temporary) Visas. The Firm also provides its corporate clients with legal services in conducting due diligence and risk assessment for immigration purposes, including I-9 Employment Compliance/Employer Sanctions and the unique immigration issues raised by Mergers and Acquisitions and other forms of corporate restructuring with regard to the employment of foreign personnel.
Immigrant Visas including:
Nonimmigrant Visas including:
Family-Based Immigration Legal Services
The Firm' Immigration, Nationality & Consular Practice Group offers its clients a full array of family based immigration legal services including both Immigrant Visas ("greencards") and Nonimmigrant (temporary) Visas.
Immigrant Visas including:
Nonimmigrant Visas including:
Consular Legal Services
Both Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Visas are adjudicated/issued at U.S. Embassies and Consulates overseas. Given the extraordinary bureaucratic delays of the Department of Homeland Security - Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (former Immigration and Naturalization Service) in adjudicating Applications to Adjust Status (to Permanent Resident) within the U.S., consular processing abroad of Immigrant Visa Applications often offers individuals and dependent family members a faster track to obtaining their greencards. The Firm’s Immigration, Nationality & Consular Practice Group offers its clients the resources to effectively deal with every U.S. consular post abroad.
Naturalization Legal Services
After obtaining permanent residence, individuals may elect to pursue U.S. citizenship through naturalization. U.S. residence and physical presence are required for varying periods of time depending upon how one obtained his greencard in order to qualify. Other criteria affect one's eligibility for naturalization often making the process more complex than initially apparent.
Immigration Litigation Legal Services
Permanent Residents as well as other persons who violate the U.S. Immigration Laws are subject to deportation/removal from the United States. Violations of the U.S. Immigration Laws not only include criminal offenses and entry into the United States without inspection. Individuals are also subject to deportation/removal from the U.S. for other violations, including working without authorization as well as remaining in the U.S. past the period of time for which they were admitted. The Firm offers a full array of immigration litigation services to persons in Deportation/Removal Proceedings before the U.S Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, and federal appellate courts.